You've not shown how any other species worships a power greater than self because nothing else does. You're drawing a false comparison to "strength in numbers" mentality, which all mammals seem to have. This includes humans who believe they can gather together on message boards and hoot down Christians to make God go away. .
I showed how other species connect to something greater than themselves. And who is to say that a roosters crow at sunrise isn't the beginning of what was once sun worship in humans? Who can say if the roosters who crow at 4 am don't believe in the power of Cockadoodledoo?
Well, we know that roosters have brains the size of a peanut and their crowing at sunrise is a reaction to stimulation of light. Morning glories bloom at sunrise but it doesn't mean they are worshiping the sun. You've not demonstrated how anything other than humans, knowingly connect to some spiritual force greater than self. You've twisted logic to create a false parameter of "something greater than self" and made a claim on that basis. If we can't be honest in the terminology of what we're actually talking about here, you can twist logic around all day long and make anything you please be the case. In that respect, it is virtually impossible for me to argue with an idiot.
I disagree with your second premise, that if what one believes turns out to be false, then what they experienced was also false. Much of what Darwin believed was true regarding evolution, has turned out to be totally inaccurate, that doesn't render Darwinism false. Many believe man is causing global warming, if they are wrong it doesn't mean the Earth isn't going through a warming cycle. Humans are capable of misinterpreting and misunderstanding their experiences. Happens all the time.
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If a primitive human heard thunder and then thought it was evidence of a deity in the sky but it turns out that there isn't anything supernatural about it then entire belief system was always false even if they really felt the thunder rumble through their body.
All throughout history man has discovered how God makes things happen. Those discoveries do not negate God. You can explain how thunder happens but you cannot explain why. What you always eventually run into is "just because that's how it is." But why? Seems to me, thunder serves a beneficial purpose to man as it warns us of impending storms or lightning in the area, but why is it present in our universe? We know what causes it and how it happens, but we can't answer why. The same applies to gravity, electricity, fire, water, etc. We know what they do, what causes them, how they work, but
why do they exist in our universe?
Now you are twisting what I said into a pretzel. I did not state that according to Darwin, humans climbed to the top of all intelligence through spiritualism. I rejected your notion that human spirituality is imaginary and delusional and as such, serves no valid function or purpose. This would defy Darwin, that mankind ascended to the top while hobbled and hindered by false beliefs in imaginary delusions, while other primates were not handicapped in such a way. .
It would defy how you interpret Darwinism if imaginary and delusional beliefs didn't serve any valid function or purpose but they do and very well for those people who have a vested interest in keeping the rest of the population blindly and mindlessly supporting beliefs and practices that make rational thinking impossible subsequently firmly cementing their comfy position above the carnage of the rabble degraded by those very beliefs and practices. Then they lovingly 'minister' to the confused who turn to their captors for understanding and direction and are celebrated as men of God even though in reality are nothing more than actors and lying frauds perpetuating a very profitable scam...
its worked like a charm for millennia.
Yes. human spirituality certainly does serve a valid function and purpose. That's the whole point of my argument. Without spirituality, humans would still be swinging from vines in the jungle with our cousins. Now you can mock religion all you like, I happen to agree that most man-made religion is fallible and prone to error. But that is a byproduct of our human spirituality.
If it were impossible to think rationally and still have spirituality, we would still be swinging from the vines in the jungle. So your supposition is refuted by self-evidence.
You hate religion, namely, Christian religion. I get that. I understand. But it has caused you to form a bias toward human spirituality which is baseless and erroneous. Until you can open your mind to possibility, you can't be enlightened, you will forever remain in the darkness. It's not possible for me to make you see something your mind is closed to.
